Pentagram have rebranded Christmas. Pentagram's Beirut explains:
It’s a big brand: 2,000-plus years of what marketers call brand equity in the making
Read about it in the N.Y. Times. They've got more time to write about this stuff than I have. (It's Christmas Eve, for God's sake! Get away from the computer!)
Still looking for a gift for that loved-one? Spread some yuletime cheer with Boogie.
December 15, 2006 . 11:26 AM
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Robert Lang has 33 origami crease patterns available as PDF downloads. The one above is for a goliath beetle, if you're wondering.
Within the last ten years, a new form of written instruction has become ubiquitous within the modern art of origami: the crease pattern (often referred to by its abbreviation, CP). Conventional origami diagrams describe a figure by a folding sequence — a linear step-by-step pattern of progression. Crease patterns, by contrast, provide a one-step connection from the unfolded square to the folded form, compressing hundreds of creases, and sometimes hours of folding, into a single diagram! Small wonder, then, that to many people, the concept of an origami crease pattern as a form of origami instruction is more than a little reminiscent of a famous S. Harris cartoon in which a scientific derivation is described by the phrase “then a miracle occurs…”
So where to start?
December 08, 2006 . 01:26 PM
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Don't know if everyone already knows this, but I just discovered it by accident.
You can download the .flvs from YouTube in Safari simply by Command-clicking (Apple key + click) on the video. Up pops a context-menu with one option: "Copy flv to Download folder". And there it is:
Just seen that it doesn't work in Firefox. A Safari only feature?
(Watch out for those evil iPods!)
Seems to be an extra feature added by the Safari Stand plug-in, one that doesn't seem to be documented.
Here's another screenshot when you try downloading before the .flv has finished streaming.
For those who don't know, Safari Stand is the plug-in suite for Apple's Safari browser, with a whole range of useful features. My favourites:
And a whole load of other stuff.
It's "Nikolaus"!
Saint Nicholas Day is a festival for children in much of Europe related to surviving legends of the saint, and particularly his reputation as a bringer of gifts. The American Santa Claus, as well as the Anglo-Canadian and British Father Christmas derive from this icon, the name 'Santa Claus' being a degeneration of the Dutch word Sinterklaas.
So for all those who've been good this year...
Here are 113 10x10 greyscale icons in .gif format to fill up your stocking with - the next instalment of my mini icon collection, which has been steadily growing over the last year.
A couple of people have been asking about licensing. The downloads on this site, unless otherwise stated, are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 licence. This means that you can download the icons and use them for whatever you like, including commercial work. You can even redistribute them, or modify them. All I ask is that you include a credit ("attribution") and if possible a back link to my site.
If you do use them for some ludicrously over-priced commercial work and don't know what to do with all that design budget, here's a button you may consider clicking - any money will go to these guys:
(Hey. It's Christmas.)
Just in time for Christmas. RoteRaupe* kicks off it's limited edition designer t-shirt range with 50 shirts from Berlin's Yackfou.
RoteRaupe* celebrates its second birthday on the 12th of Dec. in the Orangehouse, Munich.
December 01, 2006 . 12:14 PM | posted in Style . Stuff
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